Sword Dance

by Marie Laval

  He held her more tightly. ‘Do you think you’ll ever get used to living here? Perhaps I have been selfish and you’d be happier in Djanet with your family, or in London or Edinburgh where winters are less wild.’

  She turned to face him and smiled. ‘I am not afraid of snow and gales, Bruce McGunn. Wrath is where I want to be, where I belong now and… ’ she lay her hand on her round belly, ‘…where our child will be born in a few weeks’ time.’

  Her hair flew around her face, golden curls catching the sunlight. Her iris blue eyes appeared deeper and more bewitching than ever. His heart was so filled with love and wonder that this woman should be his that it ached, and he had to take a deep breath before he could speak.

  ‘You may have believed you had arrived in hell,’ he said, ‘but I knew as soon as I met you that my long, cold and lonely winter had finally ended.’ He lifted her hand to his mouth, brushed his lips to her soft, orange-blossom-scented skin and whispered, ‘And that life by your side would be like a never-ending summer’s day.’

  THE END

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  The story contained within this book is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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